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...remaining state-owned banks, Halkbank, was supposed to be next on the block, but the government dithered over how to sell it, and now, because of the worldwide financial turmoil, it can't - at least, not for a good price. A September tender for a new nuclear power plant - Turkey's first - was ill-prepared, and turned into a fiasco when all the bidders except for one Russian-led consortium dropped out. A three-year agreement with the IMF under which it would provide Turkey loans of as much as $10 billion, if needed, expired in May and hasn...
...lands and waters on a shocking scale. According to Vietnam's state media, thousands of large - and small-scale industries - discharge at least 33,000 cubic meters of waste into the Mekong River system every day. Midwife Le Thi Thanh Thuy, who lives a kilometer from the Vedan plant, tells pregnant women living along the Thi Vai River not to drink the water. Even some well water burns people's skin and isn't used to wash clothes. "They are so poor, they don't have enough money to buy rice," says Thuy. "So how can they buy water...
...boom has come to a halt. On Oct. 13 Opel suspended production at Eisenach for three weeks to help sell off a stockpile of excess cars, hundreds of which crowd a parking lot inside the factory complex. Opel electrician Katrin Huber, 29, isn't happy about this vacation. "The plant shutdown is going to cost me more than $400," she says. "But worse is that we just don't know what the future holds. I'm afraid that the plant could close...
Until June, the local Opel plant was enjoying a record year as Germany's economy hummed healthily along. In April, the company turned up the speed on its assembly lines to churn out even more cars. Instead of shutting as usual for three weeks during the summer, Opel closed the plant for just two and hired temps to supplement its full-time workforce...
...plague and occupied by both the Nazi and Soviet armies. Today, this city of 62,000 faces another catastrophe, all thanks to the woes of its meat factory. Employing 650 people directly and providing a livelihood to hundreds more - from local farmers to shopkeepers - the Zalabaromfi meat-processing plant has long been one of Zalaegerszeg's most important businesses. But the credit crisis has complicated a long-running dispute between Zalabaromfi and Hungary's second largest commercial bank, CIB, over a credit line the plant says it needs in order to keep running. Factory operations have been on hold since...